I just heard Seth Tupper wonder aloud on Dakota Midday why we don’t delay the implementation of voter-approved ballot measures a little longer so state and local officials…
Tag: initiative
Just as we Democrats are getting good advice to focus on bread-and-butter economic issues in the 2018 election, some Republican decides to drag the culture…
History seems to mitigate against synergy between ballot measures and partisan candidates’ fortunes. Even when we led the nation in putting initiative and referendum into our state…
Initiated Measure 22, the voter-approved Anti-Corruption Act, includes one potentially unconstitutional section. Scroll to the bottom and read Section 68: There is hereby appropriated from the…
…but IM 22 will make ballot question finance more quickly transparent! If Reps. Don Haggar and Jim Bolin were really worried about the influence of…
The South Dakota Legislature’s enhanced Republican supermajority plans to wage more war on democracy. Rep. Don Haggar and Rep. (soon to be Senator) Jim Bolin are…
The Watertown Public Opinion and I have our points of disagreement on the ballot measures, but NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota lines up with me perfectly: (Review…
Undeterred by its failure to place medical cannabis on South Dakota’s 2016 ballot, New Approach South Dakota plans to put its petitioning experience to work with…
Backers of Initiated Measure 21, Initiated Measure 22, and Amendment T claim that the South Dakota Republican Party and the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce are coordinating…
Brookings neighbors, learn about the ballot measures from an expert! On Monday, October 3, Dr. Robert Burns, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Dean Emeritus of…